Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-11

There will be parlors, sitting-rooms,
billiard rooms, card rooms. and on
each floor there will be private par
lors which can be used by the guests
to receive company which they do not
desire to see in the main salon. The
comfort of the prospective guests has
been considered more than economy
in money.
SUITES OF ROOMS.
In the most exposed portions of the
hotel there will be suits of four or five
rooms, with private baths and all the
appointments which modern art can
devise for mans convenience. They
will be lighted by electricity and fin
ished in natural wood in the most ele-
CANT manner. Throughout the whole
building the walls will be of stucco,
frescoed by master hand. The man
tells will be wrought from special plans
and will be works of art. They will
be of tile and endolithic marbles, with
appropriate facings and hearths.
There will be at least 100 rooms in
which the guests may assemble about
fires in chilly evenings. The gas fix
lures throughout will be manufactured
to order from special designs in keep
ing with the other appointments.
ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.
The electrical works of the hotel will
be almost wonderful. The gas will be
lit by the touch of Il button placed near
the head of the bed. This in itself
will be great convenience. An ap-
paratus will be placed in the offices
which will indicate the opening and
shutting of every door or window in
the house. This will be safeguard
against thievery of any sort. An cleo
trio fire alarm will be so arranged that
a fire in any part OF the building will
ring an alarm bell in every room.
Nothing will be omitted in the way OF
call bells and means of communication
from the rooms to the office. Among
other furnishings on the outside of the
hotel will be balconies overlooking the
ocean and the main roofs will be on
the Italian style where gardens and
promenades will be arranged. Pass
ing trains will stop at the foot of the
passenger elevator which descends the
face of the bluff. At this point there
will be station house especially de-
signed, so that people of the hotel de-
string to take bath in the ocean can
cross the track without fear OF being
run over, by means of bridge. Spec
ial elevators will be arranged for bag
gage and freights, for it is designed to
allow nothing of this kind approach
the hotel by means of the drives.
WORK COMMENCED.
Already there are thirty men on the
ground engaged in making the nee
essary excavations, and it is the in
tention to construct the hotel as soon
as possible. In two weeks from the
present time trains will be passing to
and fro and the projectors of the en-
prise feel assured that they have
chosen the right spot for the location
Of the best hotel on the continent. The
architect to whom is due much honor
for the manner in which he has de-
signed such a building as has been
partially described, is J. c. Pelton,
who at the present time has nine hotels
in the course OF erection. He has ac-
quired reputation as being one of
the best designers OF hotels of the
present age, and judging from his
works in the past and the plans for
the future, he deserves all that has
been accorded him.
The erection of this hotel sends San
Juan-by-the-Sea stock up to the sky,
and the Pacific Land Improvement
Company feels, consequently, happy.
Mr.. George H. Fullerton, the Presi-
dent and Manager OF the Company, is
indefatigable, and he is ably seconded
by J. J. Anger and J. L. Thomas, the
resident agents at San Juan.